Document history
The following table describes the important changes to the documentation for AWS CloudTrail. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
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API version: 2013-11-01
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Latest documentation update: 2024-03-26
Change | Description | Date |
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Added functionality | The AWS CloudTrail event version is now 1.10. For more information, see CloudTrail record contents. | March 26, 2024 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Billing Conductor. For more information, see AWS service topics for CloudTrail and Logging AWS Billing Conductor API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | March 12, 2024 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on AWS X-Ray traces and AWS Systems Manager managed nodes by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Data events. | March 7, 2024 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) domains by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Data events. | February 14, 2024 |
Added functionality | CloudTrail added the | February 6, 2024 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events for AWS IoT, AWS IoT SiteWise, and AWS AppConfig by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Data events. | January 4, 2024 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events for AWS IoT Greengrass by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Data events. | December 22, 2023 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Canada West (Calgary) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | December 20, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), AWS IoT TwinMaker, Amazon RDS, and AWS Supply Chain by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Data events. | December 20, 2023 |
Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the CloudTrailServiceRolePolicy
managed policy to allow the following
actions on an organization event data store
when federation is disabled: | November 26, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now can federate a CloudTrail Lake event data store to see the metadata associated with the event data store in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and run SQL queries on the event data using Amazon Athena. The table metadata stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog lets the Athena query engine know how to find, read, and process the data that you want to query. For more information, see Federate an event data store. | November 26, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events for AWS Cloud Map by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | November 16, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon SQS messages by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | November 16, 2023 |
Added functionality | CloudTrail Lake now offers two pricing options for event data stores: one-year
extendable retention pricing and seven-year retention pricing. The pricing
option determines the cost for ingesting and storing events, and the default and
maximum retention period for the event data store. Before this release, all
event data stores used the seven-year retention pricing option.
You can switch an event data store from using
the seven-year retention pricing option to using the one-year extendable retention
pricing by using the
CloudTrail console,
AWS CLI, or the UpdateEventDataStore API operation. For
more information about pricing options, see AWS CloudTrail
Pricing | November 15, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now collect Insights events in CloudTrail Lake. AWS CloudTrail Insights help AWS users identify and respond to unusual activity associated with API calls and API error rates by continuously analyzing CloudTrail management events. To collect Insights events in CloudTrail Lake, you need a source event data store that logs management events and enables Insights and a destination event data store that collects Insights events based upon unusual management event activity in the source event data store. For more information, see Create an event data store for CloudTrail Insights events and Logging Insights events. | November 9, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Launch Wizard. For more information, see AWS service topics for CloudTrail and Logging AWS Launch Wizard API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | November 8, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Bedrock. For more information, see AWS service topics for CloudTrail and Log Amazon Bedrock API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | October 23, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon CodeWhisperer customizations by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | October 18, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon Timestream databases and tables by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | September 28, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon SNS topics and platform endpoints by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | September 28, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Added table to show the tasks that the management account, delegated administrator accounts, and member accounts within an AWS Organizations organization can perform in CloudTrail. For more information, see Organization delegated administrator. | September 25, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Marketplace Agreements. For more information, see AWS service topics for CloudTrail and Logging Agreements API Calls using AWS CloudTrail. | September 1, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon Kinesis video streams and Amazon SageMaker endpoints by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | August 31, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Application Transformation Service. AWS Application Transformation Service is a backend service used by services like AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET. For more information, see CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | August 26, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | August 24, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Added new CloudTrail Lake tutorials to show how to create event data stores, view CloudTrail Lake dashboards, copy trail events to an event data store, view and run sample queries, and save query results to an Amazon S3 bucket using the AWS Management Console. For more information, see Tutorials for CloudTrail Lake | August 16, 2023 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | August 1, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS HealthImaging. For more information, see CloudTrail supported services and integrations and Logging AWS HealthImaging API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | July 26, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on AWS HealthImaging data stores by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | July 26, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on AWS Systems Manager control channels and Amazon Managed Blockchain networks by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | June 21, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now verify your CloudTrail Lake saved query results using the aws cloudtrail verify-query-results command. For more information, see Validate saved query results with the AWS CLI. | June 21, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Verified Permissions. For more information, see CloudTrail supported services and integrations and Logging Amazon Verified Permissions API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | June 13, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now use CloudTrail Lake dashboards to visualize the events in an event data store. For more information, see View Lake dashboards. | June 13, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon Verified Permissions policy stores by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | June 13, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on an Amazon CodeWhisperer profile by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | June 6, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now start and stop event ingestion on CloudTrail event data stores. For information about stopping event ingestion using the console, see Stop an event data store from ingesting events. For information about stopping event ingestion using the AWS CLI, see Stop ingestion on an event data store. | June 2, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on an Amazon EMR write-ahead log workspace by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | May 31, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Security Lake. For more information, see CloudTrail supported services and integrations and Logging Amazon Security Lake API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | May 30, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Updated CloudTrail userIdentity element topic to include an example and field descriptions for a request made on behalf of an IAM Identity Center user. For more information, see CloudTrail userIdentity element. | May 23, 2023 |
Updated documentation | This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail
Processing Library: aws-cloudtrail-processing-library-1.6.1.jar.
For more information, see Using the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail Processing Library | May 23, 2023 |
Added functionality | CloudTrail Lake now supports all Presto functions and operators. For more information, see CloudTrail Lake SQL constraints. | May 9, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on an Amazon GuardDuty detector by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events and Logging Amazon GuardDuty API calls with AWS CloudTrail. | March 30, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Added new section about creating user-defined cost allocation tags for event data stores. For more information, see Creating user-defined cost allocation tags for CloudTrail Lake event data stores. | March 24, 2023 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Telco Network Builder (AWS TNB). For more information, see CloudTrail supported services and integrations and Logging AWS Telco Network Builder API calls using AWS CloudTrail. | February 21, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon Cognito identity pools by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | February 15, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Added new section about the learning resources available for CloudTrail Lake. For more information, see Learning resources. | February 9, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now create CloudTrail Lake integrations with event sources outside of AWS. You can log and store user activity data from any source in your hybrid environments, such as in-house or SaaS applications hosted on-premises or in the cloud, virtual machines, or containers. For more information, see Create an integration with an event source outside of AWS. | January 31, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on CloudTrail | January 31, 2023 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | January 24, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Added new section about managing data consistency in CloudTrail, see Managing data consistency in CloudTrail. | January 18, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon SageMaker feature stores by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | December 27, 2022 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Marketplace Discovery. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 15, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon SageMaker metrics experiment trial components by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | December 15, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now create an event data store to include AWS Config configuration items, and use the event data store to investigate non-compliant changes to your production environments. For more information, see Create an event data store for AWS Config configuration items. | November 28, 2022 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | November 22, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on Amazon FinSpace environments by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | November 18, 2022 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Europe (Spain) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | November 16, 2022 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Europe (Zurich) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | November 9, 2022 |
Added functionality | The management account for an AWS Organizations organization can now add a delegated administrator to manage the organization's CloudTrail trails and event data stores. For more information, see Organization delegated administrator. | November 7, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now enable AWS Key Management Service encryption for a CloudTrail Lake event data store. For more information, see Create an event data store. | November 7, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now save CloudTrail Lake query results to an Amazon S3 bucket when you run a query. For more information about running a query, see Run a query and save query results. For more information about downloading query results, see Get and download saved query results. | October 21, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now copy CloudTrail trail events to a CloudTrail Lake event data store. For more information, see Copying trail events to CloudTrail Lake. | September 19, 2022 |
Updated documentation | Added list of supported Amazon CloudWatch metrics for CloudTrail Lake. For more information, see Supported CloudWatch metrics. | September 16, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now view CloudTrail service-linked channels using the AWS CLI. For more information, see Viewing service-linked channels for CloudTrail by using the AWS CLI. | September 9, 2022 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Middle East (UAE) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | August 30, 2022 |
Updated documentation | Added list of services that report TLS details to CloudTrail. For more information, see Services that support TLS details in CloudTrail. | July 19, 2022 |
Changed functionality | CloudTrail has changed the name of the managed policy
| June 6, 2022 |
Changed functionality | As a security best practice, you can now add an | May 11, 2022 |
Changed functionality | Starting Feb 24, 2022, AWS CloudTrail began changing the | April 12, 2022 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon GameSparks. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | March 24, 2022 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS App Mesh Envoy Management Service. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | March 18, 2022 |
Updated documentation | New query examples have been added for CloudTrail Lake, a new feature that lets you
run fine-grained, multiple-field SQL queries on your events. Also, a new field,
| March 4, 2022 |
Changed functionality | CloudTrail now removes the account ID of the Amazon S3 bucket owner in the
| March 3, 2022 |
Updated documentation | This update supports the following release for the CloudTrail Processing Library:
Added support for implementing a custom S3 manager, event logging to log file
parsing-related exceptions, support for parsing an optional
| January 28, 2022 |
Added functionality | CloudTrail introduces CloudTrail Lake, a new feature that lets you run fine-grained, multiple-field SQL queries on your events. Events are aggregated into event data stores, which are immutable collections of events based on criteria that you select by applying advanced event selectors. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail Lake. | January 5, 2022 |
New Region support | CloudTrail expanded support to a new Region, the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. For more information, see CloudTrail supported Regions. | December 13, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon WorkSpaces Web. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 3, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on AWS Glue tables created by Lake Formation by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | November 30, 2021 |
Changed functionality | As a security best practice, you can now add an | November 15, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Resilience Hub. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | November 10, 2021 |
Added functionality | A new CloudTrail Insights event type is available: error rate Insights events. An error rate Insights event captures unusual activity on an error that occurs on APIs called in your account. For more information, see Logging Insights events for trails. | November 10, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log CloudTrail data events on DynamoDB streams by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | September 22, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log data events on Amazon S3 access points. You can log Amazon S3 access point data events by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | August 24, 2021 |
Changed functionality | When you configure a trail to send notifications to Amazon SNS, CloudTrail adds a policy
statement to your SNS topic access policy that allows CloudTrail to send content to an
SNS topic. As a security best practice, we recommend adding an
| August 16, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | July 27, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log data events on Amazon EBS direct APIs run on EBS snapshots. You can log Amazon EBS direct API data events by using advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | July 27, 2021 |
Changed functionality | When CloudTrail processes data events, it preserves numbers in their original
format, whether that is an integer ( | July 13, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now exclude Amazon RDS Data API management events from your trails. For more information, see Logging management events for trails. | July 1, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS BugBust. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 24, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 2, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS App Runner. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | May 18, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | May 10, 2021 |
Updated documentation | This update describes data event logging requirements for AWS Config conformance packs, especially for compliance frameworks such as HIPAA or FedRAMP. For more information, see Logging data events. | May 7, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Service Quotas and Amazon EBS direct APIs. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | April 13, 2021 |
Added functionality | After an IAM administrator configures AWS STS, CloudTrail logs | April 13, 2021 |
Updated documentation | This update documents limits, in kilobytes (KB), for content in some CloudTrail event record fields. For more information, see CloudTrail record contents. | April 8, 2021 |
Added functionality | After an IAM administrator configures AWS STS, CloudTrail logs | April 6, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log data events on Amazon DynamoDB tables. You can log DynamoDB data events by using either event selectors or advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | March 23, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | March 22, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log data events on S3 Object Lambda access points if you have opted in to use advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | March 18, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Fault Injection Simulator. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | March 15, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log data events on Ethereum nodes in Amazon Managed Blockchain if you have opted in to use advanced event selectors. For more information, see Logging data events. | March 1, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Managed Blockchain and the preview of Ethereum for Managed Blockchain. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | February 4, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Amplify. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | February 3, 2021 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lookout for Metrics. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | February 1, 2021 |
Updated documentation | This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail Processing
Library: Update the .jar file references in the user guide to use the latest
version, aws-cloudtrail-processing-library-1.4.0.jar. For more information, see
Using
the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail
Processing Library | January 12, 2021 |
Added functionality | You can now log data events on Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts. For more information, see Logging data events. | December 21, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lookout for Equipment, AWS Well-Architected Tool, and Amazon Location Service. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 16, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT Greengrass V2. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 15, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon EMR on EKS. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 10, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Audit Manager and Amazon HealthLake. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 8, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lookout for Vision. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 1, 2020 |
Added functionality | The AWS CloudTrail event version is now 1.08. Version 1.08 introduces new fields for CloudTrail. For more information, see CloudTrail record contents. | November 24, 2020 |
Added functionality | AWS CloudTrail introduces advanced event selectors for data events. Advanced event selectors allow finer-grained control over the data events that you log to your trail. You can include or exclude data events for specific AWS resources, and select specific APIs on those resources to log to your trail. For more information, see Logging data events. | November 24, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Network Firewall. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | November 17, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Trusted Advisor. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | October 22, 2020 |
Updated documentation | Added two new examples of event records for root user sign-in events. For more information, see AWS Console sign-in events. | October 13, 2020 |
Changed functionality | Permissions in the | September 29, 2020 |
Updated documentation | This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail Processing
Library: Update the .jar file references in the user guide to use the latest
version, aws-cloudtrail-processing-library-1.3.0.jar. For more information, see
Using
the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail
Processing Library | August 28, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Outposts. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | August 28, 2020 |
Added functionality | AWS CloudTrail Insights introduces attribution fields for CloudTrail Insights events. Attribution fields show the top user identities, user agents, and error codes that are associated with the anomalous activity that triggers Insights events. For comparison, attribution fields also show the top user identities, user agents, and error codes associated with normal, or baseline, activity. For more information, see Logging Insights events for trails. | August 13, 2020 |
Added functionality | The AWS CloudTrail console has a new look that's designed to make it easier to use. The AWS CloudTrail User Guide has been updated with changes to procedures for how to perform tasks in the console, such as creating trails, updating trails, and downloading event history. | August 13, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Interactive Video Service. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | July 15, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Honeycode. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 24, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Macie. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | May 19, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Kendra. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | May 13, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT SiteWise. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | April 29, 2020 |
Added Region support | This release supports an additional Region: Europe (Milan). See AWS CloudTrail Supported Regions. | April 28, 2020 |
Added service and Region support | This release supports Amazon AppFlow. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. Support has also been added for the Africa (Cape Town) Region. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Regions. | April 22, 2020 |
Added functionality | High-volume AWS KMS actions such as | April 7, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | February 7, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | January 17, 2020 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Connect. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 13, 2019 |
Updated documentation | This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail Processing
Library: Update the .jar file references in the user guide to use the latest
version, aws-cloudtrail-processing-library-1.2.0.jar. For more information, see
Using
the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail
Processing Library | November 21, 2019 |
Added functionality | This release supports AWS CloudTrail Insights for helping you detect unusual activity in your account. See Logging Insights events for Trails. | November 20, 2019 |
Added functionality | This release adds an option for filtering AWS Key Management Service events out of a trail. See Creating a Trail. | November 20, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS CodeStar Notifications. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | November 7, 2019 |
Added functionality | This release supports adding tags when you create a trail in CloudTrail, whether you
use the CloudTrail console or API. This release adds two new APIs,
| November 1, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS App Mesh. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | October 17, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Translate. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | October 17, 2019 |
Documentation update | The Unsupported Services topic has been restored and updated to include only those AWS services that do not currently log events in CloudTrail. See CloudTrail Unsupported Services. | October 7, 2019 |
Documentation update | The documentation has been updated with changes to the
| September 24, 2019 |
Documentation update | The documentation has been updated with a new topic, Managing CloudTrail Costs, to help you get the log data you need out of CloudTrail while staying within a budget. | September 3, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Control Tower. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | August 13, 2019 |
Added Region support | This release supports an additional Region: Middle East (Bahrain). See AWS CloudTrail Supported Regions. | July 29, 2019 |
Documentation update | The documentation has been updated with information about security for CloudTrail. See Security in AWS CloudTrail. | July 3, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Ground Station. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 6, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT Things Graph. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 4, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon AppStream 2.0. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | April 25, 2019 |
Added Region support | This release supports an additional Region: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). See AWS CloudTrail Supported Regions. | April 24, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | March 22, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Backup. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | February 4, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon WorkLink. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | January 23, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Cloud9. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | January 21, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Elemental MediaLive. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | January 19, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Comprehend. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | January 18, 2019 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Elemental MediaPackage. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 21, 2018 |
Added Region support | This release supports an additional Region: EU (Stockholm). See AWS CloudTrail Supported Regions. | December 11, 2018 |
Documentation update | The documentation has been updated with information about supported and unsupported services. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | December 3, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | November 20, 2018 |
Updated functionality | This release supports creating a trail in CloudTrail that logs events for all AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. See Creating a Trail for an Organization. | November 19, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Pinpoint SMS and Voice API. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | November 16, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT Greengrass. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | October 29, 2018 |
Updated documentation | This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail Processing
Library: Update the .jar file references in the user guide to use the latest
version, aws-cloudtrail-processing-library-1.1.3.jar. For more information, see
Using
the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail
Processing Library | October 18, 2018 |
Added functionality | This release supports using additional filters in Event history. See Viewing CloudTrail Events in the CloudTrail Console. | October 18, 2018 |
Added functionality | This release supports using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to establish a private connection between your VPC and AWS CloudTrail. See Using AWS CloudTrail with Interface VPC Endpoints. | August 9, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | July 24, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon MQ. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | July 19, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Mobile CLI. See AWS CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 29, 2018 |
AWS CloudTrail documentation history notification available through RSS feed | You can now receive notification about updates to the AWS CloudTrail documentation by subscribing to an RSS feed. | June 29, 2018 |
Earlier updates
The following table describes the documentation release history of AWS CloudTrail prior to June 29, 2018.
Change | Description | Release Date |
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Added service support | This release supports Amazon RDS Performance Insights. For more information, see CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations. | June 21, 2018 |
Added functionality | This release supports logging all CloudTrail management events in Event history. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail Event history. | June 14, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Billing and Cost Management. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | June 7, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | June 5, 2018 |
Updated documentation |
This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail Processing Library:
For more information, see Using the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail Processing Library |
May 16, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Billing and Cost Management. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | June 7, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | June 5, 2018 |
Updated documentation |
This update supports the following patch release for the CloudTrail Processing Library:
For more information, see Using the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail Processing Library |
May 16, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS X-Ray. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 25, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT Analytics. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 23, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Secrets Manager. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 10, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Rekognition. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 6, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Private Certificate Authority (PCA). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 4, 2018 |
Added functionality | This release supports making it easier to search CloudTrail log files with Amazon Athena. You can automatically create tables for querying logs directly from the CloudTrail console, and use those tables to run queries in Athena. For more information, see CloudTrail supported services and integrations and Creating a Table for CloudTrail Logs in the CloudTrail Console. | March 15, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS AppSync. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | February 13, 2018 |
Added Region support |
This release supports an additional Region: Asia Pacific (Osaka) (ap-northeast-3). See CloudTrail supported Regions. |
February 12, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Shield. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | February 12, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon SageMaker. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | January 11, 2018 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Batch. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | January 10, 2018 |
Added functionality | This release supports extending the amount of account activity that is available in CloudTrail event history to 90 days. You can also customize the display of columns to improve the view of your CloudTrail events. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail Event history. | December 12, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon WorkMail. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | December 12, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports Alexa for Business, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, and AWS Elemental MediaStore. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | December 1, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports logging data events for AWS Lambda functions. For more information, see Logging data events. |
November 30, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports logging data events for AWS Lambda functions. For more information, see Logging data events. |
November 30, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports the following updates to the CloudTrail Processing Library:
For more information, see Using the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail Processing Library |
November 30, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Glue. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | November 7, 2017 |
New documentation | This release adds a new topic, Quotas in AWS CloudTrail. | October 19, 2017 |
Updated documentation |
This release updates the documentation of APIs supported in CloudTrail event history for Amazon Athena, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, and AWS Migration Hub. |
October 13, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Chime. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | September 27, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports configuring data event logging for all Amazon S3 buckets in your AWS account. See Logging data events. | September 20, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lex. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | August 15, 2017 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Migration Hub. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | August 14, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports CloudTrail being enabled by default for all AWS accounts. The past seven days of account activity are available in CloudTrail event history, and the most recent events appear on the console dashboard. The feature formerly known as API activity history has been replaced by Event history. For more information, see How CloudTrail works. |
August 14, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports downloading events from the CloudTrail console on the API activity history page. You can download events in JSON or CSV format. For more information, see Downloading events. |
July 27, 2017 |
Added functionality |
This release supports logging Amazon S3 object level API operations in two additional Regions, Europe (London) and Canada (Central). For more information, see Working with CloudTrail log files. |
July 19, 2017 |
Added service support |
This release supports looking up APIs for Amazon CloudWatch Events in the CloudTrail API activity history feature. | June 27, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports additional APIs in the CloudTrail API activity history feature for the following services:
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June 27, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS CodeStar. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | June 14, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports the following updates to the CloudTrail Processing Library:
For more information, see Using the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail Processing Library |
June 1, 2017 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Athena. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
May 19, 2017 |
Added functionality |
This release supports sending data events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. For more information about configuring your trail to log data events, see Data events. For more information about sending events to CloudWatch Logs, see Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
May 9, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports the AWS Marketplace Metering Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | May 2, 2017 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon QuickSight. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 28, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports an updated console experience for creating new trails. You can now configure a new trail to log management and data events. For more information, see Creating a trail. | April 11, 2017 |
Added documentation |
If CloudTrail is not delivering logs to your S3 bucket or sending SNS notifications from some Regions in your account, you may need to update the policies. To learn more about updating your S3 bucket policy, see Common Amazon S3 policy configuration errors. To learn more about updating your SNS topic policy, see CloudTrail is not sending notifications for a Region. |
March 31, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Organizations. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | February 27, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports an updated console experience for configuring trails for logging management and data events. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail log files. | February 10, 2017 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Cloud Directory. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
January 26, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports looking up APIs for AWS CodeCommit, Amazon GameLift, and AWS Managed Services in the CloudTrail API activity history. |
January 26, 2017 |
Added functionality |
This release supports integration with the AWS Health Dashboard. You can use the AWS Health Dashboard to identify if your trails are unable to deliver logs to an SNS topic or S3 bucket. This can occur when there is an issue with the policy for the S3 bucket or SNS topic. AWS Health Dashboard notifies you about the affected trails and recommends ways to fix the policy.For more information, see the AWS Health User Guide. |
January 24, 2017 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports filtering by event source in the CloudTrail console. Event source shows the AWS service to which the request was made. For more information, see Viewing recent CloudTrail management events in the CloudTrail console. |
January 12, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS CodeCommit. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | January 11, 2017 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lightsail. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | December 23, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Managed Services. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | December 21, 2016 |
Added Region support | This release supports the Europe (London) Region. See CloudTrail supported Regions. | December 13, 2016 |
Added Region support | This release supports the Canada (Central) Region. See CloudTrail supported Regions. | December 8, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS CodeBuild See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. This release supports AWS Health. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. This release supports AWS Step Functions. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
December 1, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Polly. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | November 30, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | November 23, 2016 |
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports configuring your trail to log read-only, write-only, or all events. CloudTrail supports logging Amazon S3 object level API operations such as
For more information, see Working with CloudTrail log files. |
November 21, 2016 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports additional values for the type field
in the userIdentity element: AWSAccount and
AWSService . For more information, see the Fields for
userIdentity . |
November 16, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports Application Auto Scaling. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | October 31, 2016 |
Added Region support | This release supports the US East (Ohio) Region. See CloudTrail supported Regions. | October 17, 2016 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports logging non-API AWS service events. For more information, see AWS service events. | September 23, 2016 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports using the CloudTrail console to view resource types that are supported by AWS Config. For more information, see Viewing resources referenced with AWS Config. | July 7, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Service Catalog. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | July 6, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
June 28, 2016 |
Added Region support | This release supports one additional Region: ap-south-1 (Asia Pacific (Mumbai)). See CloudTrail supported Regions. | June 27, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Application Discovery Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | May 12, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports CloudWatch Logs in the South America (São Paulo) Region. For more information, see Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
May 6, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS WAF. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 28, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Support. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 21, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Inspector. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 20, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | April 11, 2016 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports logging AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) API calls made with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and web identity federation. For more information, see Values for AWS STS APIs with SAML and web identity federation. | March 28, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Certificate Manager. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | March 25, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Data Firehose. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | March 17, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
March 10, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Cognito. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | February 18, 2016 |
Added service support | This release supports AWS Database Migration Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | February 4, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon GameLift (Amazon GameLift). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
January 27, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch Events. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
January 16, 2016 |
Added Region support | This release supports one additional Region: ap-northeast-2 (Asia Pacific (Seoul)). See CloudTrail supported Regions. | January 6, 2016 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
December 21, 2015 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports turning on CloudTrail across all Regions and support for multiple trails per Region. For more information, see How does CloudTrail behave regionally and globally?. | December 17, 2015 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon Machine Learning. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | December 10, 2015 |
Added functionality and documentation | This release supports log file encryption, log file integrity validation, and tagging. For more information, see Encrypting CloudTrail log files with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS), Validating CloudTrail log file integrity, and Updating a trail. | October 1, 2015 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon OpenSearch Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | October 1, 2015 |
Added service support | This release supports Amazon S3 bucket level events. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. | September 1, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Device Farm. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
July 13, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon API Gateway. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
July 9, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports CodePipeline. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
July 9, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon DynamoDB. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
May 28, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports CloudWatch Logs in the US West (N. California) Region. See the
CloudTrail release notes |
May 19, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Directory Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
May 14, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
May 7, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Elastic Container Service See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 9, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Lambda. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 9, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon WorkSpaces. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 9, 2015 |
This release supports the lookup of AWS activity captured by CloudTrail (CloudTrail events). You can look up and filter events in your account related to creation, modification, or deletion. To look up these events, you can use the CloudTrail console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the AWS SDK. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail Event history. |
March 12, 2015 |
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Added service support and new documentation |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. For more information, see Sending events to CloudWatch Logs. |
March 5, 2015 |
New documentation |
A new section that describes CloudTrail support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) regional endpoints has been added to the CloudTrail Concepts page. |
February 17, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Route 53. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
February 11, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Config. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
February 10, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS CloudHSM. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
January 8, 2015 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS CodeDeploy. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
December 17, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Storage Gateway. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
December 16, 2014 |
Added Region support |
This release supports one additional Region: us-gov-west-1 (AWS GovCloud (US-West)). See CloudTrail supported Regions. |
December 16, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon S3 Glacier. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
December 11, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Data Pipeline. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
December 2, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Key Management Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
November 12, 2014 |
New documentation |
A new section, Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, has been added to the guide. It describes how to use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor CloudTrail log events. |
November 10, 2014 |
New documentation |
A new section, Using the CloudTrail Processing Library, has been added to the guide. It provides information about how to write a CloudTrail log processor in Java using the AWS CloudTrail Processing Library. |
November 5, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Elastic Transcoder. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
October 27, 2014 |
Added Region support |
This release supports one additional region: eu-central-1 (Europe (Frankfurt)). See CloudTrail supported Regions. |
October 23, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudSearch. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
October 16, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Simple Notification Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
October 09, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon ElastiCache. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
September 15, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon WorkDocs. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
August 27, 2014 |
Added new content |
This release includes a topic that discusses logging sign-in events. See AWS Management Console sign-in events. |
July 24, 2014 |
Added new content |
The eventVersion element for this release has been upgraded to version 1.02 and three new fields have been added. See CloudTrail record contents. |
July 18, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Auto Scaling (see CloudTrail supported services and integrations). |
July 17, 2014 |
Added Region support |
This release supports three additional Regions: ap-southeast-1 (Asia Pacific (Singapore)), ap-northeast-1 (Asia Pacific (Tokyo)), sa-east-1 (South America (São Paulo)). See CloudTrail supported Regions. |
June 30, 2014 |
Additional service support |
This release supports Amazon Redshift. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
June 10, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS OpsWorks. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
June 5, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudFront. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
May 28, 2014 |
Added Region support |
This release supports three additional Regions: us-west-1 (US West (N. California)), eu-west-1 (Europe (Ireland)), ap-southeast-2 (Asia Pacific (Sydney)). See CloudTrail supported Regions. |
May 13, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Simple Workflow Service. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
May 9, 2014 |
Added new content |
This release includes topics that discuss sharing log files between accounts. See Sharing CloudTrail log files between AWS accounts. |
May 2, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 28, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Kinesis. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 22, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports AWS Direct Connect. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 11, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon EMR. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 4, 2014 |
Added service support |
This release supports Elastic Beanstalk. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
April 2, 2014 |
Additional service support |
This release supports AWS CloudFormation. See CloudTrail supported services and integrations. |
March 7, 2014 |
New guide |
This release introduces AWS CloudTrail. |
November 13, 2013 |